That leaves you with 2 bone minions or the flesh worm.Įarly levels I hated the bone minions because a lot of times they’d die before I could even detonate them, and their damage wasn’t that impressive. Personally Bone Fiend and Shadow Fiend are must-haves for a nice range pet that can immobilize, and a decent tanky pet that can blind. (You can unlock Flesh Golem at 30 as long as you save up 10 skill points by then)ħ-9 gives you 3 slots to stick a possible 4 pets in. I highly recommend War Horn offhand for the speed buff in all scenarios….but if you tend to favor pvp, Dagger + War Horn is nice for the 3 sec single target immobilize, and Scepter + War Horn is nice for the 5 sec 50% speed reduction aoe.Ħ is Blood Fiend, 0 is Flesh Golem. Now that I’m 80 I tend to go Axe + War Horn / Staff combo. Face tanking and holding agro helped keep the pets alive a bit longer. This was a bit of a mental block I had when I first started playing necro.īecause pets are a bit squishy, I used a Dual Dagger / Staff combo in the early levels. It gets better in the later levels, but think of necro pets as disposable….NOT like ranger pets who seem to live longer to me. I love being good at the game but not super hardcore min/maxer…so use at your own risk.Įarly levels I had a very hard time keeping pets alive longer than a few seconds. I frequently have no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure there are many out there that are similar, and I sometimes swap things out like 20% cooldown on minions vs 20% cooldown on staff recharge. I came up with it on my own over hours of pouring over talent calcs. I kinda like the theory behind it, just a matter of seeing it in practice. look how I combined the weapons in my most recent one.

I am not sure, I think maybe it was meant to be mixed with other weapons. By the way, I feel the dagger quite strange since you have to stay in close range to autoattack and then you can go in medium range to use the other skills… Why this?

I’ve tried to run Axe/Warhorn and Staff, but the damage output is unsatisfactory. At least it is the one I’m playing since it is the most effective (in sPvP i mean). I think this is the build everyone is playing. If you want to kitten and moan about the class there are several other threads with folks rehashing the same gripes over and over. Looking forward to seeing how it does end game.įor doofus the squirrel The thread is for necro builds. Really like the scepter/dagger combo combined with the staff, found it to be a blast in wvw as well. At this moment, this is what I am going for:

An impossible foe ele shaman